Flies too need their sleep. In order to be able to react to dangers, however, they must not completely phase out the environment. Researchers at Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin have now deciphered ...

New findings support a controversial hypothesis about the biological role of sleep: Snoozing may be a way for the brain to clear clutter accumulated after a hard day of synapse forming and ...

Beijing Zhongke Journal Publising Co. Ltd. Sleep is an essential behavior that exists from worms to humans, and it’s driven by integration both internal sleep drive and external environment factors.

Fruit fly mutants that have severe sleep deficits perform better at olfactory learning and memory tasks, according to a study published March 20 th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Sheng ...